Mihails Vasiļonoks (1 May 1948 – 30 April 2023) was a Latvian

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

goaltender In ice hockey, the goaltender (commonly referred to as goalie or netminder) is the player responsible for preventing the hockey puck from entering their own team's net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring. The goaltender mostly plays ...

who played for

Dinamo Riga Dinamo Riga () is a professional ice hockey team based in Riga, Latvia. It most recently was a member of the Latvian Hockey Higher League. The club is affiliated with HK Zemgale/LBTU. The club was re-founded on 7 April 2008 as a successor of a D ...

. After his hockey player career ended he went on to become the director of hockey operations for

HK Liepājas Metalurgs HK Liepājas Metalurgs was a professional hockey club based in Liepāja, Latvia that fielded multiple teams over the years competing in the Belarusian Extraliga (BXL), Latvian Hockey League (LHL), and Minor Hockey League Division B (MHL B). Th ...

and goalie coach for Latvia national team. Vasiļonoks was part of USSR team roster for the

1976 Canada Cup The 1976 Canada Cup was an international ice hockey tournament held September 2 to 15, 1976, in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg and Quebec City in Canada as well as in Philadelphia, in the United States. It was the first of five Canada Cup ...

, but did not play any games. Vasiļonoks died on 30 April 2023, at the age of 74.Mūžībā devies leģendārais Latvijas vārtsargs Mihails Vasiļonoks

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* 1948 births 2023 deaths Dinamo Riga players Latvian ice hockey coaches Latvian ice hockey goaltenders People from Bauska Municipality Soviet ice hockey goaltenders {{Latvia-icehockey-bio-stub